We can’t miss this moment.
Urge Governor Baker to sign the Legislature’s police reform bill into law, without amendment.
For months, people across the Commonwealth raised their voices for racial justice. This week the Legislature passed a bill that takes serious steps toward answering those calls — and includes reforms proposed by a diverse array of advocates and elected officials, including Governor Baker himself.
The police reform package includes critical measures to increase accountability and civilian oversight. It will establish a system for investigating and decertifying officers, set boundaries on police use of force — like banning chokeholds, limit no-knock warrants, create affirmative duties to intervene and de-escalate, ban racial profiling, and give civilians and civil rights reformers a real voice on the police oversight board.
The end of session is coming up fast and Governor Baker must act now to approve these common-sense reforms supported by large majorities of Massachusetts residents.
We can’t miss this moment.
Urge Governor Baker to sign the Legislature’s police reform bill into law, without amendment.
